Racial Disparities in Opioid Overdose Deaths in Massachusetts

Che-Yi Liao; Gian-Gabriel P Garcia; Catherine DiGennaro; Mohammad S Jalali

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9081

Racial Disparities in Opioid Overdose Deaths in Massachusetts

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e229081. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9081.

Authors

Che-Yi Liao¹, Gian-Gabriel P Garcia¹, Catherine DiGennaro², Mohammad S Jalali^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
² Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
³ Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates publicly available data from Massachusetts on reporting trends in opioid-related overdose deaths by race and ethnicity.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Drug Overdose*
Humans
Massachusetts / epidemiology
Opiate Overdose*
Racial Groups

Grants and funding

U01 FD006868/FD/FDA HHS/United States